Playing Hesiod : the 'myth of the races' in classical antiquity /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
[2015].
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Texts, translations and abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Approaching Hesiod
- The argument of this book: an 'alternative account'
- Identifying a 'Hesiodic' project
- Ages and stages, heroes and chronologies
- Reading the races in Hesiod, and Hesiod in the races
- Chapter 2: Embedding the races in Hesiod
- Introduction
- The Works and Days: ''argument' is perhaps too grand a word'?
- The importance of the 'myth of the races'
- Framing the races
- Structures in the 'myth of the races'
- Emphases in the narrative of the races
- The emergence of 'Hesiod'
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'hesiodic' projects
- Introduction: challenging the unimportance of Hesiod
- Didactic (re)constructions: the Protagoras
- Socrates' 'Hesiodic' project: the Republic
- Further experiments: the statesman
- Conclusion: transforming Hesiodic pedagogy
- Chapter 4: 'They called her justice ... ': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena
- Introduction: approaching the Phaenomena
- The maiden and the Phaenomena
- Hesiod in the Phaenomena
- Conclusion: didactic ramifications
- Chapter 5: Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Introduction: backgrounds
- Periodization
- Alternative accounts
- Conclusion: Ovid's 'Hesiod'
- Chapter 6: Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome
- Prologue: Ovid's Pythagoras and the degeneration of didactic
- Didactic hazard a: the pupil in the Octavia
- Didactic hazard b: the speaker in Juvenal Satire 6
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: playing 'hesiod'.